The Dow Chemical Company and the Smithsonian Science Education Center announced today they will collaborate on The Dow Smithsonian Teacher Scholar Program. The program is designed to enhance teachers’ skills related to STEM (science, ...
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Most of the cotton growing states like Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka have started getting good rainfall, which has led to farmers beginning sowing of cotton. “CCI has sold nearly 1.5 ...
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US-based tire manufacturer Cooper has introduced new Discoverer STT Pro variant to manoeuver challenging road conditions. Armed with a silica-infused tread compound, the new variant of tires are said to display a better wet traction ...
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Everyone knows the dangers of drunk driving, but has poor self-control. Someone after alcohol wants to have an experience of fast driving. All kinds of the lesson of flesh and blood, we should control ourselves! Now, the technology so ...
Carlsberg Group is reportedly planning to divest the former Tetley Brewery site in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK, for £35m. "We hope to be able to announce the successful purchaser prior to the end of 2015." The company, till date, ...
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The Houston-based Communitas Auto Group has opened its first Auto-Lab Complete Car Care Centers location in Spring, Texas. Auto-Lab Gleannloch Farms is the first of three locations to open in the greater Houston Texas area this year. The ...
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Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda has attached a price tag starting at $29,995 for its third-generation, three-row mid-sized SUV 2016 Pilot, armed with direct injected 3.5-liter i-VTEC engine. With the engine capable of adding 30 ...
France headquartered Solvay Group said it is investing in fibre and smart polyamide textile yarn production technology to meet the growing market demand for innovative textile products. “An investment of around R$ 50 million is ...
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In its latest report, USDA has projected the global 2015/16 cotton production to decline 6 per cent from the previous season to 111.3 million bales. “Lower crops are forecast for most major cotton-producing countries in 2015/16, ...
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Dutch materials handling automation company Vanderlande has experienced strong growth in Australia, requiring a move to new, larger premises. Vanderlande’s specialities are baggage handling systems for airports, and sorting ...
Dannon and Ahold USA’s family of grocery stores has announced that tiramisu won the Dannon Light & Fit Great Greek Flavor Search contest. It can often be difficult to choose healthy foods and stick to a weight management plan when ...
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Russian establishment RusCo is to use Innovia Films’ Propafilm RC to package its Amapola Chocolates. The Propafilm RC films are transparent biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films coated on both sides with an aqueous acrylic ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) module conversion efficiency to 18.6% aperture efficiency for a full-size module, as measured and certified by the US Department of ...
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At Intersolar Europe 2015 in Munich, Germany (10-12 June), nano-electronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has announced a thin-film perovskite photovoltaic (PV) module with a solar energy power conversion efficiency of 8% measured ...
KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has used corrugated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (CELOG) to create heterojunctions consisting of n-type indium phosphide (n-InP) and p-type silicon (p-Si) [Y. T. Sun et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
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